{"id":31,"date":"2012-06-01T15:21:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T22:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2012-06-01T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T22:22:57","slug":"no-tv-in-our-house-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"No TV In Our House &#8211;  Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it has been a few months since we decided to get rid of our DirecTV subscription and I thought it would be good to provide an update.\u00a0 The title might be slightly misleading, we still have our physical TV, we only use it for DVD&#8217;s, Netflix, and games now.\u00a0 We no longer subscribe to a traditional TV service like cable or satellite.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s changed?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s quieter around our house.\u00a0 The TV isn&#8217;t always on making the house louder.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been doing more productive things around the house.\u00a0 Family, yard, hobbies are getting more of my time.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m busy!\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even know how I watched TV at this point.\u00a0 I have been so busy doing stuff I just don&#8217;t know what I was doing before and how I fit TV into my life.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve read several books.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m missing the Stanley Cup Playoffs.\u00a0 I&#8217;m getting over this as it happens, but I do love hockey.\u00a0 I can still go over to my brothers house to watch it if I want.\u00a0 Maybe some of the last few games&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, I recommend getting rid of the TV service.\u00a0 You really don&#8217;t miss anything.\u00a0 Actually, you experience a lot more because of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it has been a few months since we decided to get rid of our DirecTV subscription and I thought it would be good to provide an update.\u00a0 The title might be slightly misleading, we still have our physical TV, we only use it for DVD&#8217;s, Netflix, and games now.\u00a0 We no longer subscribe to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}